On Tuesday 18 Mar 2003 8:24 pm, diego wrote: > I already sent a email out explaining this but it seems it got lost :-(( > (This is not the first time I suspect I'm not sending/receiving all the > email...) > > IMHO you have to tell lilo to load the mbr in another drive (lilo -b > /dev/hdc or something similar). I think that when you swith on the > computer, BIOS boots from your 100MHz ides, but as soon as kernel is > loaded it reorders ides so hda is one of the 66MHz ides, not the 100MHz > ones. This makes that when running lilo will default to load mbr in hda > (if not specified another unit) which is *not* the boot drive. > > I copy the explanation sent before (please tell me if you got a email > from me on 12 Mar 2003 just to check if I'm relly losing emails...): > Sorry for the delay - my isp has been having a lot of problems and I got more than 2 days worth of mail at lunchtime today.
Joerge is right - I did forget to run lilo. I appreciate your longer explanation, it does make a lot of sense. And no, I did not get your earlier email. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302
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